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Santee Normal Training School - Primary Sources

Civilization among the Sioux Indians : report of a visit to some of the Sioux reservations of South Dakota and Nebraska by Welsh, Herbert
Call Number: Special Collections E93 .I43
Publication Date: 1893
See especially pp16-18.
Early Days at Santee by Riggs, Mary B. Hatch
Call Number: Special Collections E97.6.S2 R5
Publication Date: 1928
Account of the founding of the Santee Normal School by the wife of founder A. L. Riggs
From the Deep Woods to Civilization by Charles Alexander Eastman
ISBN: 9780486430881
Eastman tells of his departure from the reservation at age 15 to receive his education among whites. Account of Santee pp.31-50.

Broom Brigade Tactics
Christian Education for the Indian
1910s pamphlet from the American Missionary Association
Class and Teacher Lists from the Santee Normal Training School
UNO-provided materials from the American Missionary Association related to the Santee Normal Training School
Commisioner of Indian Affairs Reports 1887
A.L. Riggs reporting on progress of school and chastising the government for banning use of native languages.
Dakota Oral Histories
Some discussion of Santee, Nebraska, and other boarding schools as well. See especially Rose Whipple Bluestone oral history.
Iapi Oaye/Word Carrier
Primarily Dakota-language newspaper written and published by students at the Santee Normal School
THE INDIANS IN THE UNITED STATES, AND WHAT IS DONE FOR THEM
1882 document from the proceedings of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; Santee-specific content pp.5-9
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Means, John O. "THE INDIANS IN THE UNITED STATES, AND WHAT IS DONE FOR THEM.: THE NUMBER AND CONDITION OF THE INDIANS. THE INDIAN MISSIONS OF THE AMERICAN BOARD. THE DAKOTA MISSION THE SANTEE AGENCY STATION, RELIGIOUS CONDITION OF THE SANTEE STATION. THE EDUCATIONAL WORK. HISTORY OF THE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL. THE SISSITON AGENCY STATION. EDUCATION. THE FORT SULLY STATION. FORT BERTHOLD STATION. THE PONCAS. THE FUTURE OF THE INDIAN WORK." The Missionary Herald, Containing the Proceedings of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1821-1906), 11, 1882, 459, https://unk.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/magazines/indians-united-states-what-is-done-them/docview/137207809/se-2?accountid=8115.
Letter by T.M. Sinclair
1880 Letter in which Sinclair talks about the Santee Agency (school).
Mary and I: Forty Years with the Sioux by Stephen R. Riggs
1880 account by Stephen R. Riggs of his and his wives'. Accounts related to the Santee School begin on p. 243
Publications of the Santee Normal School
Dakota-language publications produced at the Santee Normal School
Santee Normal Training School - land purchase
"Chapter 405, 50 Congress, Session 2, An Act: To divide a portion of the reservation of the Sioux Nation of Indians in Dakota into separate reservations and to secure the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder, and for other purposes.," U.S. Statutes at Large 25, no. Main Section (1889): 888-899
Santee Teachers
See Anna Dawson

Santee Normal Training School - Secondary Sources

Maintaining Tribal Identity at the Santee Normal Training School

The Santee Normal Training School by Guenther, Richard L.
Publication Date: 1970
This secondary source is DEEPLY problematic but useful for some of its archival and primary source citations.

Rise of the Broom Brigade